International Relations scholars have traditionally treated international environmental and resource issues as public‐goods problems. This characterisation is misleading. These issues are more accurately defined as common‐pool resource problems. The difference between the two is more than...

The field of analysis of the paper is the destination and its management and marketing. Particularly, the specific focus is on some strategic factors of destination marketing with reference to quality, identity, image and brand as a leverage for promotion and, above all, for destination...

Mit der Wandlung des Personalmanagements hin zu einer als strategisch relevant erachteten Funktion innerhalb von Unternehmen ist das Personalmanagement zugleich gefordert, seinen Beitrag zum Unternehmenserfolg aufzuzeigen. Philip Eisenhardt entwickelt dazu ein umfassendes Untersuchungsmodell,...

Die Region als latenter Netzwerkpool -- Stakeholder als Ressourcengeber in regionalen Themennetzwerken -- Werte als Grundlage zur Wertgenerierung in Netzwerken -- Sozialkapital als netzwerkgebundene Ressource und regionale Kernkompetenz -- Zufriedenheit der Partner in Netzwerken -- Triangulation...

Purpose – Resource-based literature argues that firms’ export performances are influenced by a proper combination of their own resources and capabilities, allowing for sustainable competitive advantages. Because export activities are usually based on relationships between firms and foreign...

This chapter revisits central knowledge-based mechanisms that explain variance in value creation through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It places the organizational capabilities of absorptive capacity and combinative capability in the context of M&As. Absorptive capacity – i.e., the...

This paper illustrates foreign direct investment (FDI) as the management of important network relations, using Taiwan's electronics firms as an example. Through FDI, seemingly small and weak firms propel the process of internationalization by making maximum use of external resources to which...

The resource-based view is suggested as a useful concept to shed light on the particular challenges of high potential companies on their way to building a thriving and growing company. In order to be able to apply the theoretical constructs of the resource-based view in the present context, a...

This essay addresses the role of transaction cost economics (TCE) in advancing the resource-based view. In particular, it is argued that TCE has the potential to remedy a number of weak spots in the RBV, such as the absence of attention in the RBV to the interaction between value creation and...